Suzanne Wellington Tubby Batra: A Life Dedicated to Pollen Bees

Batra SWT (1965) Organisms associated with Lasioglossum zephyrum (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). J Kans Entomol Soc 38:367–389

Batra SWT (1964) Behavior of the social bee, Lasioglossum zephyrum, within the nest (Hymenoptera Halictidæ). Insectes Soc 11:159–186

Batra SWT (1966) The life cycle and behavior of the primitively social bee, Lasioglossum zephyrum (Halictidae). Univ Kansas Sci Bull 46:359–423

Batra SWT (1966) Nests and social behavior of halictine bees of India (Hymenoptera Halictidae). Indian J Entomol 28:375–393

Batra SWT (1966) Social behaviour and nests of some nomiine bees in India (Hymenoptera, Halictidae). Insectes Soc 13:145–154

Batra SWT (1977) Bees of India (Apoidea), their behaviour, management and a key to the genera. Orient Insects 11:289–324. https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.1977.10433811

Batra SWT (1979) Reproductive behavior of Euaresta bella and Euaresta festiva (Diptera, Tephritidae), potential control agents for the biological control of adventive North American ragweeds (Ambrosia spp) in Eurasia. J NY Entomol Soc 87:118–125

Batra SWT (1980) Ecology behavior pheromones parasites and management of the sympatric vernal bees Colletes thoracicus and Colletes validus. J Kansas Entomol Soc 53:509–538

Batra SWT (1988) Automatic image analysis for rapid identification of Africanized honey bees. In: Needham GR, Page RE, Delfinado-Baker M, Bowman CE (eds) African honey bees and bee mites. pp 260–263

Batra SWT (1993) India’s buzzy biodiversity of bees. Curr Sci 65:277–280

Batra SWT (1995) The evolution of “Eusocial” and the origin of “Pollen Bees.” Maryland Nat 39:1–4

Batra SWT (1996) Biology of Apis laboriosa Smith, a pollinator of apples at high altitude in the Great Himalaya Range of Garhwal, India, (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J Kansas Entomol Soc 69:177–181

Batra SWT, Batra LR (1967) The fungus gardens of insects. Sci Am 217:112–124

Boomsma JJ, Gawne R (2018) Superorganismality and caste differentiation as points of no return: how the major evolutionary transitions were lost in translation. Biol Rev 93:28–54. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12330

Hamilton W (1964) The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I. II. J Theor Biol 7:1–52

Hefetz A, Batra SWT, Blum M (1979) Linalool, neral and geranial in the mandibular glands of Colletes bees—aggregation pheromone. Experientia 35:319–320. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01964324

Norden B, Batra SWT, Fales HM, Hefetz A, Shaw GJ (1980) Anthophora bees: unusual glycerides from maternal Dufour’s glands serve as larval food and cell lining. Science 207:1095–1097. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.207.4435.1095

Reyes S, Sakagami SF (1990) A new socially parasitic Braunsapis from India with notes on the synonymy of Braunsapis mixta (Hymenoptera, Xylocopinae, Allodapini). J Kansas Entomol Soc 63:458–461

Richards MH (2019) Social trait definitions influence evolutionary inferences: a phylogenetic approach to improving social terminology for bees. Curr Opin Insect Sci 34:97–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2019.04.006